Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian: The executive order also calls for the replacement of memorials and monuments removed since 2020.
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"Carlos Garcia, a journalist who is writing a book on the Salvadoran gangs, said after checking his database and talking to people familiar with MS-13 that he did not consider Villatoro Santos a particularly significant figure on an international level.
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"Youngkin criticized the Biden administration for providing “little to no help” with immigration enforcement efforts in his state. But Prince William County Police Chief Peter Newsham, whose agency was involved in the investigation, said in an interview that it began before Trump returned to the White House."
"The strategy positioned the U.S. to achieve breakthroughs in drug development, computer technologies and numerous other fields; the nation’s ample resources also helped lure scientists from around the world to work in its laboratories. The approach also had staunch bipartisan support, with Republicans arguing that scientific innovation was an economic and national security imperative. A half-dozen buildings on the NIH campus bear the name of GOP lawmakers who helped secure federal funding for the research institutes, including former senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, who retired in 2022."
The Worst Thing a MAGA Warrior Can Do: The response to Signalgate reveals a disjuncture between the seriousness with which MAGA treats foreign enemies and perceived domestic ones. - "The Fox News host Jesse Watters appeared to have the same prioritization in mind when he shared the story with his audience. 'This wouldn't surprise me if Goldberg sneaked his way in,' he suggested, implausibly,. 'He's the lowest of the low.' From a national-security standpoint, this theory is the opposite of reassuring. If Goldberg could 'sneak his way in' to a highly sensitive discussion about a secret military operation, shouldn't we worry that Chinese or Russian or Iranian spies, who possess espionage capabilities perhaps even greater than those of a journalist, might also sneak their way in? But the fear of infiltration by foreign enemies pales beside the much deeper fear of a Trump adviser having spoken with a journalist."
- "If Trump, as president, can violate the First Amendment's prohibition on viewpoint discrimination when it comes to foreign students, Americans lose that limit on state power too. Even the anti-immigrant firebrand Ann Coulter objected to the administration's actions. 'There's almost no one I don't want to deport,' she wrote on X, 'but, unless they've committed a crime, isn't this a violation of the first amendment?'
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"As the historian Timothy Snyder recently wrote, 'If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.'"
